J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Aylesford, Kent: The Bridge and Church 1798

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Aylesford, Kent: The Bridge and Church’ 1798
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 74 Recto:
Aylesford, Kent: The Bridge and Church 1798
D00635
Turner Bequest XXVI 77
Pencil on white wove paper, 203 x 264 mm
Stamped in black ‘XXVI 77’ bottom left, descending vertically
A watercolour of this subject showing the parish church of St Peter and Aylesford’s medieval bridge, probably made for a pupil to copy, is Tate D00864 (Turner Bequest XXXII H). Turner made a drawing of the bridge alone on folio 73 recto (D00634; Turner Bequest XXVI 76), and another view at Aylesford is on folio 75 verso (D00637; Turner Bequest XXVI 78v).
The drawing was made with the page turned horizontally.
Verso:
Blank; inscribed, not by Turner, in pencil ‘4’; stamped in brown ink with Turner Bequest monogram.

Andrew Wilton
April 2012

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Aylesford, Kent: The Bridge and Church 1798 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 2012, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2012, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-aylesford-kent-the-bridge-and-church-r1140959, accessed 26 April 2024.